Determining the firm performance using a set of financial measures/ratios has been an interesting and challenging problem for many researchers and practitioners. Identification of factors (i.e., financial measures/ratios) that can accurately predict the firm performance is of great interest to any decision maker. In this study, we employed a two-step analysis methodology: first, using explorato...

The rapid growing of information technology (IT) motivates and makes competitive advantages in health care industry. Nowadays, many hospitals try to build a successful customer relationship management (CRM) to recognize target and potential patients, increase patient loyalty and satisfaction and finally maximize their profitability. Many hospitals have large data warehouses containing customer ...

Finding or making thermostable enzymes has been identified as an important goal in a number of different industries. Therefore, understanding the features involved in enzyme thermostability is crucial, and different approaches have been used to extract or manufacture thermostable enzymes. Herein we examined features that contribute to the thermostability of 2,946 proteins. We used various scree...

Cepten yapılan sağlık harcamaları, bireylerin ve hanehalklarının hizmetlerinden yararlanmak için doğrudan hizmet sunuculara yaptığı kendilerine geri ödemesi yapılmayan harcamalar olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bireyleri, hanehalklarını sektörü finansmanını etkileyen cepten harcamalarının belirleyicilerinin tespit edilmesi oldukça önemlidir.
 Bu çalışmada “Türkiye’de harcaması yapmalarında etkili...

This paper propose a semi supervised clustering model TPC-IRBM(Two phase clustering-Integrated rule based model) for clustering large data set such as gene expression data. TPC-IRBM works in two phases to cluster the gene expression data set. The proposed model is based on rule based models CRT,C5,CHAID and QUEST. In the first phase of the model 30 % data(which may vary) is extracted to prepare...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare sociodemographic characteristics, patterns of drug use, and risky sexual behaviour among female and male users of crack cocaine. METHODS Between 2012 and 2013, we conducted a cross-sectional study of 919 crack cocaine users (783 men and 136 women) in Central Brazil using face-to-face interviews. Blood samples were collected to test for syphilis....

The performance in higher secondary school education in India is a turning point in the academic lives of all students. As this academic performance is influenced by many factors, it is essential to develop predictive data mining model for students’ performance so as to identify the slow learners and study the influence of the dominant factors on their academic performance. In the present inves...

Birdwatching is one of the fastest growing sectors ecotourism. Managing this nature-based activity requires understanding birdwatchers’ attitudes and behaviour towards natural environment. This paper proposes assessing these link to behavioural intentions by combining New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) with a criterion-based segmentation method, chi-squared automatic interaction detector (CHAID)....